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AP: High Court sides with Guantanamo detainees again.
A Washington lawyer comments, "Having now read the entire 134 page decision, I'm afraid it may not go as far as I originally thought. The same rationale could apply to foreign nationals held at other U.S. military bases abroad, depending on the agreement between the U.S. and the foreign country in which it is based, but it would not apply to less formal U.S. outposts abroad, i.e., CIA safe houses."
Balkinization's Marty Lederman early reaction: " ... At first glance, it would appear that although the decision is momentous, there are other important things that it does not do: It does not speak to whether GTMO should be closed (although it basically undermines the Administration's principal reason for using GTMO in the first place, which was to keep the courts from reviewing the legality of the Executive's conduct). Nor does it affect, in any dramatic sense, possible military commission trials -- with the important exception that it invites the defendants in those trials to raise constitutional defenses, such as under the Ex Post Facto Clause. ..."